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Forum / Dr. Louis Sullivan' defends health. # wf ? . - ? ? ' J _ > ? * > -v.. j&meri< In the past, those few African- million aged and disabled beneficia icans who have h&d the honor ries will be seriously eroded." Sul pnd responsibility to serve in the livan registered his complaints Cabinet of a President usually have directly in a letter addressed 1o Mr. CIVIL RIGHTS JOURNAL By BENJAMIN P. CHAVIS JR. not. been very audacious in chal lenging a White House budget director. To Dr. Louis W. Sullivan's credit, he has rejected the proposed b6dget cuts that would cause harm tb the health of millions- of people across the nation. ?" 'Dr. Sullivan, the Secretary of H&flth and Human Services, has challenged Richard G. Darman, the White House budget director, con cerning Darman's preliminary deci sions on the 1992 Federal budget ' Although President Bush has until -February to submit the 1992 btidget to Congress, Dr. Sullivan strategically let it be known that Dartaan's proposed budget cuts w6uld cause severe harm to more ~thln 50 million persons who are supported by Medicare* Social Security and other health -related pn&gfams. Dr. Sullivan stressed, "Our ability to respond to the needs of 50 Darman. Given the reality of the overall deterioration of the delivery of health care to African-American and Hispanic-American communi ties, in particular during the last decade, we support Sullivan's oppo sition to cuts in Federal health pro grams in the 1992 budget. Those who are perceived to be the most politically powerless are the targets of the Bush Administra tion's budget ax. Following the pat tern set by Reagan a decade ago, Bush seems determined to make the poor suffer more; Racial and ethnic communities will bear the brunt of the proposed budget cuts in health programs. * The infant mortality rate in the United States continues to increase. If Darman's proposals are accepted, prenatal care programs will be decreased which in turn will cause the infant mortality rate to escalate. Dr. Sullivan has requested addition al funds to address what he termed the "disgracefully high rates" of infant death in the United States. In the wake of the multi-billidn dollar military build-up in the Per sian Gulf, the United States contin ues to triage the Federal budget against the interests of millions of persons to the profit of the U.S. mil itary-industrial complex. A nation that systematically denies health care to its people is a nation that contributes to its own demise. Another devastating result of Darman's proposed budget cuts would be the eventual closing of the jremMning African-American and _ other racial ethnic-based hospitals. These hospitals barely are able to stay open due to the poverty of many of the patients that receive medical care. The proposed cuts in the Health Care Financing Administration, which is under Dr~ Sullivan's authority, would delay the payment schedule to hospitals from two to - six months. Hospitals that serve our communities will not be able to stay open with that kind of delay in Federal reimbursements. ? Dr. Sullivan deserves the full support of all who want health care for all persons in this society. We say "No to Darman, and no to Bushj" But to Dr. Sullivan, we say, "Right on!" Immigration no workforce solution I spend a good deal of my time trying to convince business people and others that America will be in deep economic trouble unless it IdoesU* lot more to improve educa tion and training opportunities for .African Americans. ? My argument is buttressed by demographic statistics that show declines in white population growth and dn increase in black growth. 'The argument hits home. Many employers are finally begin - ning te understand that the survival of their business will depend on get ting Enough trained people to do the work; that needs to be done. ? They look at the demographics and see that trained people just won't ?be available unless African Americans and other minorities get the skills and the schooling to keep America competitive. .But lately* I'm beginning to pick Up troubling signs that some business people are doing what they always have~done ? finding excus es to -avoid reaching out for African American talent. They are begin ning to took to expanded immigra tion as trie source ot reinforcements for the workforce. - Some say that the collapse of communism in eastern Europeilftd ther Soviet Union will let loose a surge of immigrants that can solve ill their workforce problems. Oth ers" Look to expanded immigration froftv Asia and Latin America. They think immigration will be cheaper and less trouble that improving our schools, training the unemployed in the higher skills required by today s economy, and stretched social services. The core ditching discrimination. problem facing America's future ' That may . be the thinking economy is the skills shortage, and behind the new immigration law immigration is no panacea for that, that creates about 140,000 new _ Our failure to educate and train entry slots for skilled workers and . poor Americans, especially African^ their dependents. Americans and other minorities at Most business people under- greatest risk, is behind the skills stand the need to do a lot more to shortage. / EQUAL E. JACOB TO BE By JOHN make sure all of our own citizens get the skills and education t5" become \ productive. But those who think that immigration will solve their workforce needs had fetter wake up to reality.; America does not have a labor shortage today. There's no pressing need to open our doors to^&et new workeh ? not with oveftsben mil lion people unemployed and double that number underemployed or dis couraged from seeking work. Large- scale immigration would add to-, the competition for scarce jobs and drive down wages. Surely we have an obligation to ensure that our own citizens get first crack at the available jobs. : Higher immigration also adds ^to our social problems and places an unfair burden on our ownpoor, since most new immigrants tend to cluster in large cities already bur dened by housing shortages and Enough skilled immigrants ^can't be brought in to solve the skills shortage. Current immigra tion levels would have to be tripled . or quadrupled, a political impossi bility. We already take in more immi grants that any other country, in keeping with our tradition and our heritage. But there comes a time when limits are reached, and we've pretty much hit those limits now. Sound immigration policy would strike a balance between fair entry levels for newcomers and expanded opportunities for our own citizens, especially the poor and jobless. Sound economic policy would invest in America's long-neglected human resources. We need to pro vide the educational and training opportunities for the African Amer icans our nation has so long perse* cuted and neglected. False premise yields false ending 9 It is not often that I take issue with' another columnist because at most *what we have is a difference of opinion, and that is good because if \Ve did. not, there would be need for 'only one of us. ?However, one of my favorites, i ' '? t 'US ?? 111 ?"r and William Raspberry, whom he referred to as "an ordinarily sensible columnist for the Washington Post," as among those creating a "tremen dous howl" over the original deci sion by Michael Williams, assistant secretary of education, that the AGAINST THE GRAIN By ROOSEVELT WILSON James Kilpatrick of Universal Press Syndicate, took issue recently with reactions of others regarding the Martin 'Luther King Jr. birthday hol iday 'inspired minority scholarship ^controversy, so I guess I can in good >?ns?i$nce i#ke issue with Kil patrick, . Specifically, he named three blacks, NAACP director Benjamin Hooks and columnists Carl Rowan awarding of scholarships based on race alone might be unconstitution al. Williams, also black, was responding to the Arizona-based Fiesta Bowl's announced intention to grant each of the participating teams, the University of Alabama and the University of Louisville, an additional $100r,000 for scholar ships for blacks. Williams later modified the rul ing to make such grants of private funds permissible. One reason I like Kilpatrick, who is white, is his even-handed, logical approach to his columns. He seduces the reader with his logic and makes it simple to agree ? or disagree ? with his point. But the one problem with his valid approach is that in logic, if one begins with a false premise one will reach a false conclusion, , Kilpatrick is a good man and means weir. He agrees with Williams, for example, that*- federal law and the Constitution prohibit racial discrimination. 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